The various museums in Qatar are among the main features of the country's leadership and people's interest in history and heritage. These museums reflect the different aspects of Qatar ancient and modern history.

Qatar National Museum:

     The museum lies on the eastern part of the Corniche. It displays the geological history of Qatar as well as a collection of Islamic artifacts and relics. There is also a maritime museum in which the fish wealth of Qatar is displayed, and a small lagoon where wooden traditional boats built in Qatar are moored. The museum is a notable example of eastern Arabian architecture. It won the first Agha Khan Award for Renovation Excellence.

Islamic Arts Museum:

Situated on Doha Corniche, this museum houses a rare collection of Islamic artifacts. Designed by world-famous architect Leoh Ming Pei, the Museum of Islamic Art is the first of its kind in the world. Part of it lies under water and the other on the surface. The architecture of museum has been inspired by Ibn tolon Mosque in Egypt ablation place.

• There are also some personal museums such as Sheikh Faisal bin Qassim Al Thani museum and a number of museums such as follows:
• Al Khor Museum:
  Al Khor museum lies in Al Khor town about 57 km north of Doha. It is a two-storey building. The ground floor is assigned for anthropological life, while the upper floor hall is set for the display of excavation discoveries in Al Khor area.

• Al Wakrah Museum:
  It lies in Al Wakrah town about 17 km from the capital and displays marine life and natural history materials.

• Weaponry Museum:
  The museum displays rare samples of swords, daggers and miscellaneous firearms and their accessories. It lies in Al Lagta area in the suburbs of Doha.

• Ethnographic Museum:
  Situated on Grand Hamad Street, this building is the last remaining construction of its kind in Doha. It opens from Sunday through Tuesday from 9 am to 12 noon; on Fridays from 3 to 6 and closes on Saturdays. Entrance is free of charge.

• Folklore center
  A meeting of the Gulf States, the first of its kind, was held in Doha to coordinate efforts in order to preserve folklore. As a result, the Folklore Center was founded in Doha 1982 as a regional joint body which in 1991 became an autonomous affiliate of the Gulf Cooperation Council. The main role of this center is to preserve folklore. Given the paramount importance accorded to standardization, this center is mainly concerned with the protection of intellectual property, copy-rights, traditional architecture and music. It also protects handicrafts and artifacts. In coordination with UNESCO and World Intellectual Property Organization, Gulf Folklore Center aims to protect both folklore, as a national resource from foreign exploitation, and private moral and material rights of contracting nations.